Quentin Tarantino has been snubbed by the Golden Globes, earning no major nominations for his upcoming movie The Hateful Eight.

The controversial filmmaker is notably absent from the shortlist for Best Director and Best Picture, and none of his film's stars were deemed good enough for a Best Actor nod.

Though the movie was tipped for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the news will come as a major blow to Tarantino, who said this week that he thinks it is 'a contender' for the Oscars.

It comes as thousands of police officers vow to boycott The Hateful Eight when it hits theaters on December 25 in reaction to Tarantino calling all cops 'murderers' at a Black Lives Matter rally in New York.

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Snubbed: Quentin Tarantino didn't make the Best Picture or Best Director list for the Golden Globes this year

The director said this week that he thought The Hateful Eight (pictured) could be a contender for the Oscars

The Hateful Eight is a post-Civil War movie set in Wyoming starring Channing Tatum and Samuel L Jackson. The movie, out on Christmas Day, also stars Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bruce Dern (pictured)

It is Tarantino's first film since the incredibly controversial Jamie Foxx movie Django Unchained (pictured)

TARANTINO AND THE ELUSIVE 'BEST DIRECTOR' GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD

Quentin Tarantino has never won the Golden Globe award for Best Director.

In fact, despite producing some of the industry's most revered movies in the last 25 years, he has never won the accolade at any major awards ceremony.

He was nominated for Best Director for Pulp Fiction in 1994 and Django Unchained in 2012. Both movies won Best Screenplay.

Inglourious Basterds earned him nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay but lost out on both.

He was named Best Director for Pulp Fiction at the Film Independent Spirit Awards and for Reservoir Dogs in 1992 at the Sitges Film Festival.

The Hateful Eight is a post-Civil War movie set in a blizzard in Wyoming starring Channing Tatum and Samuel L Jackson.

Tarantino has been vocal about his confidence in the new movie.

He told GQ on Tuesday: '[P]eople are so excited about it and they’re talking about it and everything at the end of the year, and it seems a little crazy that, like, my movie The Hateful Eight (...) is being talked about at the end of the year in the same sentences as Star Wars.'

However, it has already hit some bumps in the road.

After Tarantino branded all cops 'murderers' at a rally in New York's Washington Square Park in October, thousands of police officers around the country said they will not watch the movie and will urge others to boycott it.

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And it seems movie award judges aren't too fussed about people rushing to the cinema to catch it either.

Best Picture, instead, will go to either Carol, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Room, or Spotlight.

Tarantino's last movie, Django Unchained, was marred in political controversy, with many branding the slave story 'racist'.

Of course, he is not the only Hollywoodite suffering from being snubbed today.

Johnny Depp, Steven Spielberg and his film Bridge Of Spies, along with Mad Men and House Of Cards have all been snubbed by the Golden Globe Awards.

Ignored: Johnny Depp, pictured, Kit Harington, Amy Poehler, Taylor Shilling and Mad Men have all been snubbed for Golden Globes

Pretending they don't exist? Steven Spielberg's film Bridge Of Spies and its star Tom Hanks, one of the few actors to win an Academy Award two years in a row, were snubbed by the awards show

Lost the nomination: While Robin Wright got a nod for her performance in the series, House Of Cards was not listed among the nominees for best TV drama

Cheers to me! Jon Hamm got a nod from the Hollywood Foreign Press, but his show was otherwise ignored

Depp - who received a nod for 2010 thriller The Tourist - missed out on a nod for his portrayal of gang leader James 'Whitey' Bulger in crime drama Black Mass when nominations were revealed on Thursday.

While perhaps the biggest upset was the Hollywood Foreign Press ignoring Spielberg, who is a recipient of their Cecil B. DeMille Award and has won twice before for best director.

The filmmaker's Bridge Of Spies is a historical drama taking place during the Cold War and stars Tom Hanks, one of the few actors to win an Academy Award two years in a row.

What's more, Hanks' role as lawyer James B. Donovan in the historical thriller clearly didn't impress the HFPA enough as he was snubbed in the Best Actor category.

While House Of Cards swept the Screen Actors Guild nominations the day before, only Robin Wright got a nod from the HFPA, which otherwise ignored the critically acclaimed Netflix series.

Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington's character Jon Snow was killed off this year but the dramatic scenes clearly didn't help the hunk get a Golden Globe nod for Best Actor in a TV Drama series as his name was not on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's (HFPA) list.

Meanwhile, Taylor Schilling, who stars as Piper Chapman in prison comedy-drama series Orange is the New Black, missed out for Best Actress in a Comedy, with Rachel Bloom, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gina Rodriguez and Lily Tomlin all receiving nominations today.

Amy Poehler and Amy Schumer were snubbed in the same category for their roles in Parks And Recreation and Inside Amy Schumer respectively, and there weren't any laughs for the stars of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Broad City - both shows missed out on Best Comedy nods.

No longer their Golden boy? Perhaps the biggest upset was the Hollywood Foreign Press ignoring Spielberg, who is a recipient of their Cecil B. DeMille Award and has won twice before for best director

You know nothing! Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington's character Jon Snow was killed off this year but the dramatic scenes clearly didn't help the hunk get a Golden Globe nod for Best Actor in a TV Drama series

Locked away and forgotten: Taylor Schilling, who stars as Piper Chapman in prison comedy-drama series Orange is the New Black, missed out for Best Actress in a Comedy

Don't forget about NWA: Straight Outta Compton was also ignored by the HFPA

There were several other shocks in the small screen nods for the Best Drama accolade as Mad Men wasn't recognised, although leading man Jon Hamm is up for Best Actor in a TV Drama series for his portrayal of Don Draper in the AMC show.

The Good Wife and Jessica Jones also missed out, as did TV series House of Cards and The Walking Dead.

Other omissions in the movie categories include bio drama Straight Outta Compton, and Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman missed out for Grace of Monaco.

The nominations were announced by America Ferrera, Angela Bassett, Dennis Quaid and Chloe Grace Moretz at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Thursday.